Yii2 Composer manage package in bower and bower-vendor

Question

I have been using yii2 for sometime now but i cant wrap my head around how to manage my packages. I have two issues in these regard.

1. when i add a package to yii

Answer 1

This can be archived by overwriting the default alias path for bower packages which is @vendor/bower to @vendor/bower/bower-asset.

This can be done from the web.php file under $config=[]

 'aliases' => [
        '@bower' => '@vendor/bower/bower-asset',
    ],

when you echo

echo Yii::getAlias('@bower');

it should echo

/Library/WebServer/Documents/project-name/vendor/bower/bower-asset